Best Snake Pit Poems


Premium Member True Grit
...My  name is Mattie Ross and I hail from Yell County
In the state of Arkansas living, on a ranch with family
At the age of fourteen I suffered personal tragedy
When my father Frank Ross was tak......

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Categories: snake pit, america, death, loss, murder,
Form: Narrative
Lovelore
...What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home
or the Siren’s song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit 
nights in a field of flowers
or trudgi......

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Categories: snake pit, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Two and Too Explained
...To Too and Two Explained

To market, to the car, to the grocery, to the pool, to the snake pit, to the park
In order to, invariably to their thinking, I would do anything to.
The most common to –......

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Categories: snake pit, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse

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Kiss the Snake
...my meme replacement therapy
is going quite well
because I can't handle everything thrown at me
everything is a lot and GIGO to boot
the fibrous growth in my ear
said that the future signals us i......

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Categories: snake pit, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Forgetting Fault With Forgiveness
...I-t's time to forget the fault, 
S-aying you forgive someone; 
M-ake it easy for your life, 
A-ccepting what's been done.
E-asy to forget, it's true, if you possess purity of heart; 
L-et animos......

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Categories: snake pit, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Mr. Goodbar
...Teacher, teacher what are you doing there? 
You'll never find Mr. Goodbar in that snake pit.
Preoccupation with admiration is making you late.
Stop this insanity, madness abate.
Anticipating a pr......

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Categories: snake pit, girlfriend-boyfriend, husband, lost love,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Facing Fear
...I once suffered a strong arm robbery on a dark Chicago street. Halfway down the block, I saw two young men turn the corner and headed in my direction.    That had never happened before, and I could n......

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Categories: snake pit, chicago, fear,
Form: Narrative
The Many Faces of Love
...What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home,
Or the Siren song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit night
in a field of flowers
Or tr......

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Categories: snake pit, love,
Form: Free verse
Love Lore
...What is love?

The North Star guiding
a lost seafarer home
or the Siren’s song luring
him to the rocky shores?
Is it frolicking in the moonlit nights
in a field of flowers
or trudgin......

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Categories: snake pit, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Cool Moe B
...Cool Moe B

Back in the day we used to pray
 Others say it ought not be that way
 Snake pit, lion's den you need someone to be your friend
 Your a soldier in the army of God

 Cool Moe B in th......

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Categories: snake pit, addiction, africa, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feeling Criminal
... She feels your eyes on her like she's a criminal 
And the feeling is not deemed subliminal  
Manipulate others to see it your way
Minimizing her just makes your whole day 

What are you thin......

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Categories: snake pit, age, analogy, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Truth Be Told
...The theme park was crowded. Elephants on roller coasters, mosquitos bracing the water slide, ferrets enjoying the ferris wheel and leopards shooting crack in the gallery. A myriad of personification ......

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Categories: snake pit, allegory, black love,
Form: Narrative
Vote
...I fear our votes must be scraps or spoils
No rich man knoweth our toils
Upon us he performs a curse
For he is governed by his purse
We seem to draw no wit
From our previous failing
When into th......

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Categories: snake pit, political,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seize the Ceasing Day
...when evening’s dawn descended on her restless soul

defeated dusk and dust collected deep into the night

cobwebs spun an open trapdoor over broken peace

insomnia prevailed as a cynical remind......

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Categories: snake pit, depression,
Form: Free verse
Toward Treasure
...5/25/22

Living in the nether
Couldn't keep it together
For a long time wore a fetter
Remaining tethered
Occasionally got tarred and feathered
To your expectations I lost interest if I'll ever......

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Categories: snake pit, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
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